Ripple Effect Unleashes 5 Year Anniversary Free Download Compilation

What started out five years ago as a forum for two music lovers to share their obsession with obscure/little-heard rock music, has grown and evolved into a Record Label, a top-rated Radio Show, and one of the world's premiere sites for discovering new and lost classic music: The Ripple Effect. To celebrate 5 years of collective Ripple Madness, Todd Severin (Racer X) and John Rancik (Pope JTE) are unleashing a massive download compilation album, featuring some of the best of the new wave of modern heavy rock bands. And it's all entirely free!

Best of all, the compilation features many brand new, previously unheard, unreleased tracks by some of the bands leading this charge of the Heavy. In addition, you'll find tracks from several albums buzzing across the websites and music blogs, and several new and waiting-to-be discovered bands.

To be released on July 22, through bandcamp, The Ripple Effect unveils, The Ripple Effect presents: Volume 1- Head Music. In it's depths you'll find such notable bands as Stubb, Ape Machine, Devil to Pay, Miss Lava, Voodoo Johnson, Borracho, and more. 23 tracks in all. All free. Some of the absolute best heavy rock the world has to offer.

To download your free copy, go to the Ripple Effect bandcamp page and get yours today!

And continue to check out The Ripple Effect each day for the latest music discoveries, and the Ripple Music record label for the latest releases from bands like Stone Axe, Mos Generator, Grifter, Trucker Diablo, Poobah, Fen, JPT Scare Band and more.

Here's the track listing:

• Devil to Pay "High Horse" - from the album Heavily Ever After
• White Light Cemetary "The Wieser" - previously unreleased
• Torso "One" - from the EP Inside
• Cody Foster Army "Built Up Knocked Down" - previously unreleased
• Stubb "Under a Spell" - previously unreleased
• Space Probe Taurus "Ridin' the Mud" - previously unreleased
• Concrete Sun "Silver Tear" - previously unreleased
• Hong Faux "Bad City Blues" - from The Crown that Wears the Head
• Hosoi Bros "Wine Witch" - from 7" single Wine Witch/Yellow Fever
• Ape Machine "Everybody Bleeds" - previously unreleased
• Deadweight "Cosmic Lunch" - previously unreleased
• SuperGiant "Rosey Posey" - from Pistol Star
• Voodoo Johnson "Swear it to the Sun" from ep Black Powder Mother Loader
• Banda de la Muerte "Espiritu en Paz" -from Pulso de una Mente Maldita
• Venomin James "Seven Years" - previously unreleased from upcoming album Unholy Mountain
• Miss Lava "Ride" - from upcoming album Red Supergiant
• Steak "Machine" - from ep Disastronaut
• The Heavy Company "Groove a Mile Wide" previously unreleased from upcoming album Midwest Electric
• Dark Earth "Dark Earth" - previously unreleased
• The Enders "Self Deluded" - New Previously unreleased from upcoming album "The Ruins of Ambition."
• Borracho "All in Play" - Live version, previously unreleased. Album version from Splitting Sky
• Arise Within "Black Pearl" - from album Volume 2
• Knall "Dark Amber" - previously unreleased

The Single Life - 7" of Fun - Featuring Devil to Pay, Mantis, Hosoi Bros, and Miss Lava

Devil to Pay/Mantis  - Split

My God!  Why aren't more people talking about Devil to Pay?  The boys have been around long enough to create some serious waves in the doom metal scene, having released three full-lengths and scattered others, yet I don't hear near enough about them.  And then I get this split with Mantis and it's just screaming at me that these boys need to be heard.  Not content to be a straight doom band, or stoner, or sludge, Devil to Pay do it all, and even toss a little grunge, classic rock, and straight ahead groove metal into their mix.  "Tractor Fuckin Trailer" rides a beefy stoned out doom riff through the downtempo verses, soaring to a massive sludgy rock fest for the chorus.  Guitars are huge.  Bass is subsonic.  Drums are bruised.  Toss in some clean, yet thickened vocals  a real, honest-to-goodness guitar solo, and a groove that winds itself tighter than a coiled rattler, and we got a slice from the doomer/stoner bliss pie.   Mantis bring it as well with their bass stumbling, wahed out blitz, "Chocking on Forbidden Fruit."  Big and loud, Mantis add a touch bebop and a galloping drum beat to their side, making for a nice balance to the Devil to Pay side.  Both are strong, groove riddled and weighty.  Released in 2003 by Lax Wax Records, it can still be tracked down and is worth the trouble.   A killer split.

Hosoi Bros - Wine Witch b/w Yellow Fever

Every time I hear this, I like it a little bit more.  Looking at the guys, you wouldn't know what to expect.   Check out the photos on the back, you'd think the local trailer park got overturned by a tornado and resurrected the muck hiding under the local rocks in Memphis.  And that muck formed a band.  On top of that, lead-singer/guitarist Severin Allgood (yes . . .I love his name) has the appearance of a lost Hanson Brother; the one who never made the hockey team.  But then they start playing and, holy fuck, all notions go out the window. Forget appearances.  These guys flat out rock!  "Wine Witch" is full on Motorhead fueled, punk-snot nosed, Angelwitch sputum NWOBHM.  Guitars flare and wind and undulate and it's all so . . . .fucking good.   There's a stoner vibe to the guitar tone, but all amped up as if the bong got filled with meth not water.  And best of all, the band just don't take themselves seriously.  I mean, come on.  Wine Witch?  666?   It's that tongue in cheek humor that just makes the damn thing so special.  "Yellow Fever" rocks with just as much abandon.

The heavy scene needs a band like this.  One that doesn't get lost up their own tattooed ass.  No pictures of wax dripping down skulls and burning embers. Just pure, unadulterated metallic haze.   I heard these guys are one of the most raucous acts in Memphis.  I don't doubt that for a second.

Hanson Brothers of metal.  Who'd a thunk it?  

--Racer

Miss Lava - Ride

Ever been to Lisbon, Portugal? You haven't? Lemme fill you in.

Climate? You might want to avoid the summer months. It was uncomfortably HOT.

The cuisine? What I tried was really HOT.

The women? To my eyes, a lot of them were pretty HOT.

See where I'm going with this? A lot of damn heat is generated in that city.

Never listened to any local heavy bands while I was there, but right now, the hard-rocking Miss Lava has to be some of the hottest around. Forecasts indicate they're ready to erupt with a new record in a few months.

Relax. You don't have to go there to hear the first single off the upcoming Red Supergiant, to be released in September. The band is offering a scorching, "Ride", free for download, management said. Miss Lava even put out a nifty music video, directed by Joerg Steineck (Lo Sound Desert, Truckfighters). Shot in Las Vegas and Red Rock Canyon, it's a pretty cool vid and fits the fuzz.

Check it. If you want the song for your portable music player or pc, click the Bandcamp or Soundcloud links.

--Heddbuzz



Devil to Pay - Tractor Fuckin' Trailer



Hosoi Bros - Wine Witch




Miss Lava - Ride

Miss Lava - Blues For The Dangerous Miles

I could have sworn Miss Lava was from Sweden. Their high energy rock action reminded me of the Turbonegro, Backyard Babies, Hellacopters, etc right away but it turns out their from Lisbon, Portugal! Almost as impressive as their big rock sound is the offensive artwork and clever CD packaging. The psychedelic vagina might be almost as good as the semi-subliminal one on the Mom’s Apple Pie album cover from 1971.

How’s it sound, you ask? Big, loud, catchy, dumb and fun. Big guitars, bigger drums, throbbing dirty bass and in your face vocals. “Play it loud until her hips shake” is their motto and I bet that’s what they do when they rage the stage. Blues For The Dangerous Miles is a solid 11 song album that should get any party started off on the good foot. “Don’t Tell A Soul” starts it off in righteous fashion with a big riff and heavy foot stomping beat.

Other highlights include the dirty “Black Rainbow.” The bass sound is pure raunch n roll and propels the music forward. Can’t help think that this was inspired by some Dio-era Rainbow and Sabbath, even though it doesn’t really sound like either of those bands. “Birth, Copulation and Death” has a saucy Turbonegro bounce and some racy female backing vocals. The 8 minute album closer “Scorpio” is not a cover of the Dennis Coffey classic, but a no nonsense rocker with a tripped out interlude.

Miss Lava are a solid rock n roll band, nothing more or less. In their native country they’ve shared the stage with everyone from Slash to Meshuggah and I bet they give the headliners a run for their money every time.


--Woody

buy here:  Blues for the Dangerous Miles


http://www.myspace.com/misslavarock